Description
Book SynopsisThe subject of religious liberty in the nineteenth century has been defined by a liberal narrative that has prevailed since Mill and Macaulay to Trevelyan and Commager, to name only a few philosophers and historians who wrote in English. Underlying this narrative is a noble dreamliberty for every person, guaranteed by democratic states that promote social progress though not interfering with those broadly defined areas of life, including religion, that are properly the preserve of free individuals.
At the end of the twentieth century, however, it becomes clear that religious liberty requires a more comprehensive, subtle, and complex definition than the liberal tradition affords, one that confronts such questions as gender, ethnicity, and the distinction between individual and corporate liberty. None of the authors in this volume finds the familiar liberal narrative an adequate interpretive context for understanding his particular subject. Some address the liberal tradition dir
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; Introduction Richard Helmstadter; 1. The Whirlwind of religious liberty in Early America Nathan O. Hatch; 2. Science and religious freedom Frank M. Turner; 3. Which freedom for early Victorian Britain? J. P. Ellens; 4. The limits of religious liberty: theology and criticism in nineteenth-century England R. K. Webb; 5. The Jews of Europe and the limits of religious freedom David C. Itzkowitz; 6. The Kulturkampf: restrictions and controls on the practice of religion in Bismarck's Germany Ronald R. Ross; 7. Liberty and the Catholic Church in nineteenth-century Europe Raymond Grew; 8. Changing religious establishments and religious liberty in France, Part I: 787-1879 C. T. McIntire; 9. Changing religious establishments and religious liberty in France, Part II: 1879-1908 C. T. McIntire; 10. Religious freedom, clericalism, and anticleericalism in Chile, 1820-1920 Simon Collier; 11. Religion and imperial power in nineteenth-century Britain Jeffrey Cox; Abbreviations; Notes; Index.
